Constitutes the second part of Theodor de Bry's Small voyages, printed in 13 parts and an Appendix in Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim from 1597 to 1633

This work has been identified as the first Latin edition of part two of the Small voyages by Church

Translation of selections of: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien / by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, first printed Amsterdam, 1596

This part contains the relation of the voyages of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to Africa and the East Indies from 1583-1592. The work was first printed in Holland in 1596, and was first translated into German by the de Brys in 1598 and afterwards by them into Latin. This part, translated by Anneaus Lonicerus, contains the first forty-four chapters. Cf. Church

"Icones vivae, verae et genvinae nationvm, gentivmqve onnivm, qvotqvot accolvnt ad oram maritimam, qvae a gadibus vsque in Indiam Orientalem, & inde ad Chinarum vsque regnum continuato ductu pretingit, additis eorundem ceremoniis moribusq[ue] ita expressis, vt coram spectari credas. Expressi sunt & habitus moresq[ue] quibus tum ipsi Lusitani, tum vxores & mancipia eorum hodie in India vtuntur. Omnia elaboratissime scitissimeque in aere repraesentata, opera, studio sumtuque Io. Theodori, & Io. Israelis de Bry fratrum", p. [7], 3rd count, has separate title page with imprint: Francofurti: Excudebat Wolffgangus Richter, impensis Ioannis Theodori & Ioannis Israelis de Bry, fratrum, M D. XCIX. [1599]

Signatures: (:)⁶ ((:)1, (:)5 versos blank) A-O⁴ P² (-P2) a⁴ (-a1) (a4 blank) chi1 (chi1 verso blank)

Includes index

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials

Contains 1 double plates, 2 double folded maps, and 1 plate of coins in the 2nd count; 38 numbered leaves of plates (of which no. 37 is a double plate), are printed on recto only (except for double plate no. 37 which is printed on verso and recto) and are signed ²A2-²K4 following separate dated title page, p. [7-8], 3rd count

Church, E.D. Discovery

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (J De Bry SV pt. 2 1599 Lat) imperfect: wanting 1 double plate, 2 double folded maps, and 1 plate of coins in the 2nd count

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has all edges untrimmed and measures 34 cm. in height

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (J De Bry SV pt. 2 1599 Lat) has an additional double map of Mozambique bound between p. 18 and 19, 2nd count, in a different state

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: plate of coins, cited by Church as bound to face p. 96 is misbound facing p. 76 in the JCB copy

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 (J De Bry SV pt. 1 1598 Lat cop. 2) bound as 2nd item of 2 with: Regnvm Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, qvod tam ab incolis qvam Lvsitanis Congus appellatur / by Filippo Pigafetta, Frankfurt am Main, 1598, which is the first Latin edition of part 1 of De Bry's Small voyages

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 imperfect: prefatory material, p. [1-12] misbound in this order: title page leaf, p. [7-10], p. [3-6], and p. [11-12]; wanting p. [5-6], 3rd count, blank leaf; has a blank leaf with annotations about plate placement on recto bound between p. 48 and 49, 2nd count; wanting the folded (or double) map of Java, Sumatra and Borneo bound to face p. 48, and the double map of Mozambique misbound between p. 104 and 105; plate numbered 37, bound following p. [7-8], 3rd count, is a folded plate rather than a double plate

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 3: Rhode Island Historical Society: book stamp on recto of second front flyleaf and pink book stamp on title page

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